Ugh. Violates the show don’t tell rule so often as to be distracting. Endless chapters about a ‘game’ that isn’t a game and is dull as hell. Some interesting concepts just buried in a sea of uninteresting prose.
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Toddbert rated Reaping (Paperbacks from Hell): 3 stars
Toddbert rated Some Rain Must Fall: 5 stars
Toddbert rated Midnight in Chernobyl: 5 stars
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
"Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, …
Toddbert rated The twenty days of Turin: 2 stars
The twenty days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria
In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can …
Toddbert rated A Head Full of Ghosts: 5 stars
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
"The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display …
Toddbert rated The Snow Leopard: 3 stars
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
This lovely book (1978) describes a two month search for the snow leopard with naturalist George Schaller in the Dolpo …
Toddbert rated Tiamat's Wrath: 4 stars
Tiamat's Wrath by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse 8, #8)
Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the …
Toddbert reviewed Death's End (The Three-Body Problem) by Liu Cixin
Review of "Death's End (The Three-Body Problem)" on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Toddbert rated A Man in Love: 5 stars
A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgård (Min kamp, #02)
Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard is struck by an overwhelming urge to get away, and he settles …
Moonraker by Ian Fleming (James Bond (3))
Toddbert rated My Struggle: Book 1: 5 stars
Toddbert rated Hell House: 1 star
Hell House by Richard Matheson
Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his …